From the Gullah culture of South Carolina. Guy and Candie Carawan collected this when they lived on Johns Island SC in the 1960s and published it in a book of the same name. The version I learned was somewhat different, though probably from the same source. (GB)
Tell My Mother (Ain't You Got a Right)
Tell My Father (Ain't You Got a Right)
All My Children (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life
All my Brothers (Ain't You Got a Right)
Tell My Sisters (Ain't You Got a Right)
Tell everybody (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
To The Tree Of Life
Gonna tell all my brothers (Ain't You Got a Right)
Gonna tell all my sisters (Ain't You Got a Right)
Gonna tell all the world (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
To the Tree of life
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life
My Life Will Be Sweeter (Ain't You Got a Right)
So Sweet Some Day (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
To The Tree Of Life
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
Yes, we all got a right (Ain't You Got a Right)
You can tell of the children (Ain't You Got a Right)
To the tree of life
We come from a distance (Ain't You Got a Right)
Yes, We all got a right (Ain't You Got a Right)
Ain't You Got a Right (Ain't You Got a Right)
To The tree of life